Improved apparatus for the manufacture of whisiey



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HIRAM VAUGHN; THOMAS GHADWELL, E. H. CHILDRESS. AND G. A. WEB- BER, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.

Letters Patent No. 79,926, dated July 14, 1 868; antedated July 2, L868.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFAGTURE 0F WHISKEY'.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, HIRAM VAUGHN, THOMAS CHADWELL, E. H. Curnnnnss, and G. A; Warns, of Nashville, in the county of Davidson, and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and: improved Mode. of Manu- .facturing Whiskey, in accordance with the law on the matter; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same. v

The'nature of our invention consists in providing our stills and vats with a complete system of pipes, pumps, bydrometers, gauges, and adlocks, in such a disposition, and in using them in such a manner, as to enable us to manufacture our whiskey out of our reach,-its' degree of improvability being always under our control, and its quantity under the control andtthe lock of the revenue-ofiicers, according to the spirit of the law.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make anduse our invention, we will proceed to describe its construction and operation. v i

We constructour vats, A'AAVA', and stills, S S S" S,of wood or other nraterial,-with their ordinary appendages, but we'turnish th'efirst still, A or beer-still, with a pipe,'through which it receives the mash from the fermenting-tub. We also provide the said beer-still with a steam-pipe, through which it is heated, and with another pipe, we call cvaporatingfpipe, by means of which, when conveniently heated, the liquor evaporates and goes in the condenser.

:All other stills are provided with padlocks, steam-pipe, evaporatingpipe, and gauge, by means of which the liquid is kept secured, heated,- evaporated, and its level in the still always ascertained; Also, we furnish said stills with a cock, placed'at their bottom, to takeoff the water and charcoal, after the operation; said cock fastened'hy a padlock. I

- All vats are furnished, first, with a pump, worked by any power whatever, through which the-liquor is taken from it'to the next still; second, with a hydrometer, by means of which the grade of the liquor 'is ascertained. Said hydrometer is enclosed in an apparatus, M, composed of two glass tubes, one of them being connected with the pipe through which runs the liquor, when condensed,-from the refrigerator to the vat, and in which, in turning the cock K, the liquor is kept, and ascends in the other glass tube, permitting the hydromctcr to float in it, it allows to read through the glass the grade of the liquor.

I We also provide the last apparatus of our hydrometer with'an additional pipe, for the purpose of taking the liquor from that apparatus to the third, still, when its grade is pronounced too low, and distilling it again.

This we do by turning the cock K in a convenient manner.

. The pipe connected with the apparatus, hi, containing the hydromctcr, is the continuity of the evaporating-v pipc, in which the liquor enters in a vapor from the stills, and comes out in a-liquid form in vats, after having been condensed in the refrigerator.

We also furnish all cocks and openings with apadlock adopted by the internal-revenue otlicer, and all hinges and hasps of all openings of our stills and vats are fastened by bolts having the nuts inside of the vessels.

The above being established, let us proceed to explain the operation of our manufacture.

The sour 'inash being taken by a pump from the fermenting-tub, goes to the first still or beer-still, where it is heated, and, evaporating, goes through the pipe I into the condenser c, where it condenses and comes out in a liquid form andinto the first vat, A. When a sufficient quantity has been running, the pump 13 is put in mot-ion, either by steam, through thesystcm of pulleys and straps, E E, or by other means, and the liquor is taken from the vat to the second still or doubling, where, by the gauge a, it is ascertained that a suflic'ient quantity is contained in thestill. The still is heated either by steam or by any other means, and the liquor evaporating goes through the evaporating-pipe P into the condenser, from which it comes out, in a liquid form,

in the second vat.

All that has been said for the first vat will take place in the second. The liquor will be taken through the pump in the third still, there it will be heated, evaporated, condensed, 850., until it goes to the last cistern,

V, which, according to the law, is kept in a separate room, oi which the revenue-oflicer has thekey.

From vat to vat, by means of the hydrometer H, the grade of the spirit may be aseertained, and if, by the last hydrometer, it is seen that its grade is too weak, by turning the cock K irisuoh a manner, the liquor, instead of running in the last cistern, comes to the three vats to be distilled again.

In our drawings- Figures 1 and 2 represent-the plan and elevation of our manui'acturing-apparatus.

Figures 3, 4, 5, 6 represent section of pulleys, vats, stills, and I i p The last drawing represents a plan and elevation of the apparatus M, with the additional pipe to take the liquor from it to the third vat when its grade is judged too weak.

Claim. 1. The process hereinbefore described of manufacturing whiskey, or any kind of spirit whatever, by the employment of pipes, pumps, hydrometers, gauges, adlocks, substantially as described.

2. The manner herein described of employing pipes, pumps, hydrometers, gauges, Padlocks, as set forth. 8. The method of working said pumps, pipes, hydrometers, either by steam or other power whatever, and using them in combination with gauges and padloeks, in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

HIRAM VAUGHN, THOMAS CHADWELL, E. H. CHILDRESS, Gr. A. WEBBER. Witnesses:

OSCAR W. SLoAN, H. on SALUSSE LUssAol NOTE.-Our manufacture is generally intended for the sour-mash process for obtaining whiskey. 

